Economic informatics: history of formation and perspectives of development

The retrospective analysis of formation of economic informatics as science and the directions of the higher education is carried out in the article. Classification of resources and services of international academic and scientific community in the economic informatics is presented. The emphasis is made to the analysis of foreign and national experience of education development in the field of economic informatics. Experience of higher education establishments of Russian Federation, Ukraine, Poland, Republic of Belarus is considered. As the result of the carried-out analysis, need of creation in Republic of Belarus of the academic community on economic informatics is proved, directions for cooperation of the Belarusian higher education establishments with foreign ones in the sphere of economic informatics are offered.